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Ulrich gave Rolling Stone an update on the progress of the songwriting for the new album, "We are f***ing in it. We've got lots of songs, and we're honing them and tweaking them. It's pretty close."

He then defined what he meant by close. "The creative elements are getting close to being done," the drummer says. "Just remember, this is still 'Metallica time.' When I say we're close to being done, it means the next month or so. There's a lot of stuff going on as life continues with family and personal events.... But we are certainly down there [writing] pretty much every day."

Although he nixed a planned follow-up to the duo's follow-up to the six time GRAMMY wining 2007 album, Raising Sand, he and Krauss will perform together at a tribute to folk blues icon Lead Belly (aka Huddie Ledbetter).

The band posted the following message, signed by Mustaine and the group's longtime webmaster Dave McRobb, on their Facebook page, "Pat lost his life in a fatal car crash Tuesday morning, March 3 near 186th & State Street in Bennington, Nebraska.

"Pat was a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserves as a Transportation Specialist for 23 years. He had served two tours in Iraq from 2003-2004 and 2007-2008, and one in Kuwait from 2009-2010. He served with the 172nd Transportation Company (disbanded) and the 443rd Transportation Company. With serving honorably in the U.S Army Reserve, Pat was also a Military Technician for the Department of the Army as a Heavy Mobile Equipment Repairer and a Tool Room Specialist for 12 years.

"Pat was a loyal Megadeth fan, Cyber Army club member and friend. Every year he would be excited to submit his Christmas Card designs to the Megadeth Christmas Card Contest, and he holds the record for being in the Top 10, four times. He won the card contest in 2012 and was runner up in 2010, 2011, and 2014. He was already working on a Christmas Card design for 2015. Pat had attended meet 'n greets with Megadeth, would wear his Megadeth shirts proudly at home and overseas, would correspond with us here at Megadeth.com on a regular basis, and even had a tattoo of Vic Rattlehead with a Staff Sergeant insignia.

"Pat had this special ability to brighten the day of anyone he came in contact with. Whenever you were in a group with him, the laughter from his humor was infectious. He was a great Soldier, Non-Commissioned Officer, a loving husband and dedicated family man leaving behind his wife, Terri, his two sons and a granddaughter.

Sean sold 139,000 copies of his album, just two thousand more than Rock's 137,000 in actual sales. The new Billboard 200 album chart also accounts for streaming in the tally, with Rock coming in at 146,000 to Sean's sales and streams of 173,000.

He and his contemporaries faced their own battles to find their way to the big time in the 1980s, even though those battles were different to the ones faced today.

Ian tells Musician's Friend: "I can't say it was great in the 80s. It's the music business - it's never been populated by like-minded individuals, meaning the people running the business aren't your bros in the bands."

He argues that one positive was the way artists were funded. "The philosophy was, you developed the band over a course of four or five records, and then hopefully you'd have a gold record.

"None of these bands made it on their first album, or even mostly their second. It was on their third or fourth that most bands started their careers - then people would go back and buy the earlier stuff.

And while looking back at the late Sixties, Stein recalls Zeppelin supporting Vanilla Fudge - and he remembers having a few words of wisdom for the fledgling rockers.

He tells the Broward/Palm Beach New Times: "The first big tour we did was with Jimi Hendrix in 1968 and it was amazing. I got to hang out with Hendrix and to know him pretty well.

"When Led Zeppelin first came out in 1968, we broke them in. We headlined and they opened for us because we were label mates so we really got to know each other."

Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were arrested in 2005 over their involvement in a smuggling group known as the Bali Nine. They were later convicted and await execution.

The letter, dated March 3, was delivered to the president, known as Jokowi, in Jakarta today. Iommi writes: Your Excellency, I understand and respect your efforts to combat drug abuse in Indonesia. I have seen first-hand the negative impacts that drugs can have on people and their families. That is why I understand your strong views on this issue."

Grohl tells the crowd: "We love coming here to play shows for you people." He turns to Hawkins and says, "Give me a drumstick," then hands it down from the stage.

Wagner says: "Though Ryan and I didn't talk that often since he split from Broken Hope, we did correspond once in a while, and we always wished each other well.

"Ryan's artistic talents went beyond drums - he also played acoustic guitar incredibly well, wrote some of the segues on the earlier albums, contributed his own lyrical parts. He became a singer-songwriter post Broken Hope, where he expressed his art his own way, and very well."

Souza, who returned to Exodus last year in time for tenth album Blood In Blood Out, tells The Metal Hammer Radio Show: "Alex Skolnick of Testament came up to me at a show and said, 'You know we're going to have to throw Alone In The Dark or something in there.

Parlophone Records say: "On January 28, 1970, Hawkwind - Dave Brock, Mick Slattery, Nik Turner, Terry Ollis, Dik Mik, and John A. Harrison - signed to Liberty Records. Slattery left soon after, to be replaced by Huw Lloyd-Langton, and the banded record their first, self-titled, album at Trident Studios in London.

"The period from 1970 to 1974 proved to be a busy time, seeing several lineup changes, the rise to prominence of a certain Ian 'Lemmy' Kilmister, the ingenious Space Ritual Tour - and a peculiar ban from BBC recording sessions. This box set celebrates that period."

His comments come after figures showed that, for every �10 spent on streaming subscriptions, just 68c are paid directly to musicians. Halford tells 3News: "The big ones like Spotify appreciate the position they're in. They've got buckets of money. I think you've just got to be 'fair's fair' here. Without us, you don't have a streaming company - that's it, plain and simple."

Mainman Chris Barnes says the work continues his theme of seeing the world from a serial killer's viewpoint. The former Cannibal Corpse vocalist was joined by Cannabis Corpse's Phil 'Landphil' Hall on writing duties. The band's live lineup is completed by guitarist Steve Swanson, bassist Jeff Hughell and drummer Marco Pitruzella.

Tramp tells Classic Rock: "It's the completion of a trilogy that I call, 'This Is Me, Take It Or Leave It - I Ain't Going Nowhere Else.' It's a natural progression from 2013's Cobblestone Street and 2014's Museum, but it's for sure a pure rock album. The word 'acoustic' will not be part of the description."

The shows are based on last year's Primus & The Chocolate Factory With The Fungi Ensemble - a reimagining of the soundtrack to the 1971 Wonka movie starring Gene Wilder. They'll play two sets each night.

Last October Gilmour talked about his new album, saying, "It's coming along very well. There are some sketches that aren't finished and some will be started again... Then I'm hoping to do an old man's tour, not a 200-date sort of thing."

Label Manticore Records had the following to say about the release, "Featuring extended workouts of their best-known tunes, this value-priced collection comes in a wallet pack.

In this magical alternate universe, their whole audience is women. Women with the hair of Diana Ross circa "Love Hangover" and the outfits of extras from Austin Powers: Goldmember. Women who are, inexplicably, breathlessly happy to be there.

Coca-Cola and monkeys are name checked in the chorus, which is a real speedy tongue twister, while the bartender does his best impression of Tom Cruise in Cocktail.

This week, Van Halen issued "Runnin' With The Devil" and "Panama" as a preview to the upcoming release of "Tokyo Dome Live In Concert", their first-ever live album with original frontman David Lee Roth.

Due March 31, the project features the band recorded live at the Japanese venue on June 21, 2013 as part of their tour in support of 2012's "A Different Kind Of Truth."

A new book released on the math featured in the popular cartoon series draws attention to an equation shown in an episode from the late '90s. The episode 'The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" features an inventive Homer Simpson in front of a blackboard with an anything but ordinary equation.

'That equation predicts the mass of the Higgs boson," Dr. Simon Singh, author of The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets, told The Independent.

It's taken from his album Duets: Re-Working The Catalogue, also featuring guest appearances from Steve Winwood, Mark Knopfler, Taj Mahal, Mavis Staples, Georgie Fame and others.

On March 9 (March 10 in North America), the 3CD set will include a remastered version of the album along with a complete live recording from the 'Defenders' tour from the Long Beach Arena in California.

This week, Judas Priest announced a series of spring US concert dates. Following their previously confirmed May 16 appearance at the Rock On The Range festival in Columbus, OH, the band will perform shows in Cincinnati, OH (May 17), St. Charles, MO (May 19), Council Bluffs, IA (May 20) and Rosemont, IL (May 21).

Mitchell says of the track: "Are we all actually unique? Are We Copies? is a nagging doubt I have in my subconscious in this age of synthesised society and Xerox mentality."

The research implies that a musical education could be more valuable to educational development than many authorities believe.

The study was carried out by Northwestern University, who took high school students from Chicago and placed half in a standard course, and the rest in a musical training program.

The 80-minute set was filmed at London's Union Chapel and features a special guest appearance by The Gathering's vocalist Silje Wergeland on The One You Are Looking For Is Not Here.

Says guitarist Anders Nystr�m had the following to say about the song featured in the video clip, "We have always felt that if there's a need, we're entitled to the freedom to give our old songs a makeover in the now rather than the never. So, in the making of Sanctitude there was one song in particular that meant a great deal to us.

"In fact, [Day] was our first song ever to feature entirely clean vocals accompanied by clean guitars and it was written and released right in the peak of our death metal years. The song stood out, but isolated itself into oblivion in the climate of heavier music.

The set of Stones covers, recorded in 2009, includes guest appearances by Jackie Greene and Steve Elson, and continues the band's 20th anniversary celebrations.

Hart recently revealed her watchwords for the music she creates, saying: "Keep working on telling the truth - that's my mantra for the music. Tell the truth, work your ass off, and keep going there. I've got four things I have to do and the rest I leave to the wind - pray, work out, eat right, and keep in contact with my doctor."